Dan Solomon

Dan Solomon lives in Austin with his wife and dog. He’s written for MTV, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Vulture, the AV Club, Fast Co.Create and Texas Monthly. He is but a simple boy from Texas. @dansolomon

Posts by Dan Solomon

Could we really be looking at a President Dwayne Johnson in 2020? In May, The Rock was on the cover of GQ to promote his two blockbuster films of the summer — the record-shattering The Fate of the Furious and the, er, less-than-record-shattering Baywatch adaptation. But whatever he had to say about the two films was overshadowed by the news he made in the story: that he was seriously considering the idea of running for …read more

My absurd initiation into full-fledged ‘Fast and Furious’ fandom. The Fast and Furious franchise is one of the most successful properties in Hollywood, but aside from a late-night screening of Furious 7 that I was barely awake for, I’ve managed to remain ignorant of its mythology. So when the Alamo Drafthouse announced the Fast & Furious: Second Gear marathon on April 13, screening the five last films in the series’ chronology — more on that in …read more

From keynote speakers to live music, here are 8 highlights to add to your SXSW 2017 lineup. When someone tells you they’ll be at SXSW 2017, a fair question to ask is “Which one?” The gargantuan festival, which overtakes seemingly the entire city of Austin (or, at least, the area surrounding downtown) for 10 days in March, isn’t just one thing. It started as a music festival, but that hasn’t been its primary identity in at …read more